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...just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct tape and cardboard. I stagger through a glitter gulch of Gummi fauna, Boston baked beans, gobstoppers, Good & Plenty, Tart'n Tiny. Then, bingo: bulk jelly beans, premium grade. I put my cube under the spout and fill...
...Lord Rothschild wanted three mountain ranges explored, so I was sent out at 23 to collect the bird fauna," Mayr says. "I sent back over 3000 bird skins...
...yield the dazzling technological leaps that come from tackling fundamental problems in science. Tan's solution: continue supporting basic research -- like mapping the genes of the fugu, the poisonous blowfish prized by sushi chefs -- while at the same time prospecting for new drugs in Southeast Asia's flora and fauna for the British giant Glaxo...
...contract killings. The current black-market price for one ready-to-mount bighorn sheep can go as high as $10,000. Grizzly bears fetch $25,000. Eagles and some of the rarer butterflies bring $1,000 apiece. Meanwhile, despite the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the principal wildlife-protection treaty, the global market in "medicinal" animal parts expands unabated. "The bear is like a walking bank account for poachers," says Grosz; almost all its parts are salable in Asia. South Korean folklore recommends bear gallbladder for ills ranging from convulsions to tooth decay...
During a brief respite from public effrontery, Zhirinovsky kept benignly busy -- skiing, basking in health spas and perusing telegrams, including one he received from an Austrian animal-rights group urging him to protect the "flora and fauna" of Alaska -- after he fulfills his campaign promise to reclaim the 49th U.S. state for Mother Russia. But then he felt compelled to stage an impromptu press conference, at which he "revealed" that Russia's military possesses something called an "Elipton," a weapon of mass destruction more powerful than a nuclear weapon. Asked what in the world his boss could be referring...